Organisation Behaviour: Culture, Motivation, and Effective Teams

Organisation
behaviour

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................4
P1- Analyse how an organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance. ........................................................................................................4
P2- Evaluate how content and process theories of motivation and motivational techniques
enable effective achievement of goals in an organisational context............................................5
P3- Explain what makes an effective team as opposed to an ineffective team............................7
P4 Apply concepts and philosophies of organisational behaviour within an organizational
context and given business situation............................................................................................9
M1- Critically analyse how the culture, politics and power of an organisation can influence
individual and team behaviour and performance.......................................................................11
M2- critically evaluate how to influence the behaviour of others through the effective
application of behavioural motivational theories,concepts and models....................................11
M3- Analyse relevant team and group development theories to support the development of
cooperation within effective teams............................................................................................11
M4- Evaluate how concepts and philosophies of Organizational behaviour inform and
influence behaviour within a given business situation..............................................................12
D1 Critically analyse the relationship in between the culture, politics and power and
motivation that helps to team and organisation in success by giving recommendations...........12
D2 Critically analyse and evaluate the relevance of team development theories, concepts and
philosophies that influence behaviour in the workplace to improve business performance and
productivity................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Organizational behaviour is the study of social and environmental factors which affect
the performance of the employee's individually or as a team. The success of the organisation is
dependant on the way of organisational members interact or communicate and collaborate,
through these parameters organisational behaviour can be improve. Organisation behaviour
describes the behaviour which occurred between the groups and individuals in the organisation.
The study of organisation behaviour can be done through five elements like; people, structure,
technology, social system and the environment. In an organisation there are some leaders who
manage the functions of the employee's by using some strategies which assist the employees to
improve their performance. It not only focus on the employee productivity but also it take care
about the workplace experience and the job satisfaction. However this can be achievable by
knowing the manner of interaction which employee's do and also the activities which motivate
therm at workplace. This report will cover the various topics related to maintain the
organisational behaviour such as; culture, politics and influences of power on individual and on
team behaviour, some theories of motivation which enable effective achievement of
organisational goals,effective and ineffective team, group development theories which support in
development of cooperation in effective teams.
MAIN BODY
Organisation Overview
In this report to cover all the topics related to organisation behaviour a British
multinational energy and services company Centrica plc is taken, its primary activity is to supply
the electricity and gas to the people or the consumers of UK and Ireland, Centrica headquarter is
in Windsor, Berkshire (Buchanan, and Huczynski, 2019). The company is the largest supplier of
gas to domestic customers in UK and also one of the largest in supplying of electricity which is
in operation with the name of Scottish Gas in Scotland and British Gas in England & Wales. By
taking the help of Centrica plc the efforts will be make to understand the organisation culture,
politics, individual and team behaviour, different theories of motivation which enables the
company to effectively achieve the organisational targets. Apart from that some relevance team

development theories, concepts and philosophies will also cover in this report which improves
the business performance and its productivity.
TASK
P1- Analyse how an organisation's culture, politics and power influence individual and team
behaviour and performance.
In every organisation there is some kind of culture on which company runs its business
operations or handle all the activities. Company's surrounding and its rules and regulation makes
the culture. Politics and power are also the important factors of every organisation which mould
the behaviour of the company members and mainly the employee's. The culture, politics and
power put an impact on efficiency of the employee's and it will be discuss in context to Centrica
below;
Culture of the Organisation- The culture of any institution, company can be identified through
its practices and the method which they use while practising their business operations. It become
the responsibility of leader to create such an operational culture which guide the employee's to
perform the business operations with all their best efforts to achieve the common objective of a
company. Culture of the organisation plays the significant role in the company success as it
provides the environment at workplace and also determine the behaviour of the employee's
towards the company operations. If any organisation have well maintained culture which
provides the healthy and peace working environment for the employee's where they can feel
motivated, it tends to achieve the company success. Organisation culture are of four types which
are discussing below;
 ADHOCRACY CULTURE- In this culture organisation's leader create such an
environment where all the employee's work together which helps them to find a better
solution of any problem. Through this culture Centrica got abled to take quick and right
decisions as it would be decided by all the members and as per the condition. Such type
of culture allow the employee's to switch their job role if they can't get adjusted in that.